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From the Ted Talk by Ayah Bdeir: Building blocks that blink, beep and teach
Unscramble the Blue Letters
So beyond simple play, littleBits are actually pretty powerful. Instead of having to program, to wire, to solder, littleBits allow you to program using very simple intuitive gestures. So to make this blink faster or slower, you would just turn this knob and basically make it pulse faster or slower. The idea behind lielibttts is that it's a griwnog library. We want to make every single interaction in the world into a ready-to-use brick. lghits, snduos, saolr panels, motors — everything should be accessible.
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So beyond simple play, littleBits are actually pretty powerful. Instead of having to program, to wire, to solder, littleBits allow you to program using very simple intuitive gestures. So to make this blink faster or slower, you would just turn this knob and basically make it pulse faster or slower. The idea behind __________ is that it's a _______ library. We want to make every single interaction in the world into a ready-to-use brick. ______, ______, _____ panels, motors — everything should be accessible.
Solution
- lights
- growing
- sounds
- solar
- littlebits
Original Text
So beyond simple play, littleBits are actually pretty powerful. Instead of having to program, to wire, to solder, littleBits allow you to program using very simple intuitive gestures. So to make this blink faster or slower, you would just turn this knob and basically make it pulse faster or slower. The idea behind littleBits is that it's a growing library. We want to make every single interaction in the world into a ready-to-use brick. Lights, sounds, solar panels, motors — everything should be accessible.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
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Important Words
- accessible
- basically
- blink
- brick
- faster
- gestures
- growing
- idea
- interaction
- intuitive
- knob
- library
- lights
- littlebits
- motors
- panels
- play
- powerful
- pretty
- program
- pulse
- simple
- single
- slower
- solar
- solder
- sounds
- turn
- wire
- world